Saturday 4 July 2009

Happy :-) and sad :-(

Mark came back from Little Hens with 2 new girls, Mrs Slocombe and Summer who are twice the size of ex batts as they are freerange organic birds. They're very stocky and hold their wings very differently due to their muscles-the look like bodybuilders! (Hence they'll need a wing clip or they'll be off visiting neighbours)


He went to fetch the hens in and as Tiny, Lexi and Amy are all still in with me overnight but out in the day in a huge dog crate (great dane sized, lol) under cover of the gazebo. Amy was lying down, freezing cold and seemingly at deaths door.
She originally came to us on antibiotics with a VERY swollen comb but that shrunk drastically after the medication. We called her Amy Henhouse after Amy Winehouse with the lump on her head.
She did join the flock but was picked on and sought Mark's company when he was doing some DIY to the green hen house (she kept sitting with him on his toolbox and they made friends) We realised she was seeking safety from the bullies and therefore she came back in with "my 2 girls"

We all hope Amy survives the night and recovers. We can't understand what has gone wrong unless whatever caused the lump in her comb is actually elsewhere in her body (a cancer maybe) Mark has put her back on an antibiotic and given her sugared water and she has eaten a little mash so we'll just wait and see now. We can't do a lot more other than wrap a hot water bottle in a towel and hope no one pecks a hole in it.



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